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Sadržaj AM

vcelebonovic@sezampro.yu

INFORMATION LETTER
ON BALKAN ASTRONOMY

March 1, 2004
Number 22

Dear collegues,

This is the first issue of ILBA in 2004. It contains announcements for several scientific meetings in astronomy and related sciences, which are scheduled for this year.

THE SERBIAN-BULGARIAN ASTRONOMY CONFERENCE

The fourth meeting in this series is to be held in Belgrade on April 21-24 2004. It is being organized by the Astronomical Observatory in Belgrade and the Astronomical Society Rudjer Boskovic. Details about this event, are reproduced below as received from the organizers.

Subject: Fw: IV SBGAC

Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:33 AM

Subject: IV SBGAC

F I R S T A N N O U C M E N T

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4th Serbian-Bulgarian Astronomical Conference (IV SBGAC)

21-24 April 2004, Belgrade, Serbia

Organized by Belgrade Astronomical Observatory

and Astronomical Society "Rudjer Boskovic"

Scientific Organizing Committee:

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Milan Dimitrijevic (Co-chairman, Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)

Valeri Golev (Co-chairman, Astronomical Observatory, Sofia

University, Sofia) Miodrag Dacic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)

Slobodan Ninkovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)

Peter Getsov (Space Research Institute, BAS, Sofia)

Luka C. Popovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)

Miltcho Tsvetkov (Institute of Astronomy, BAS Sofia)

Vladan Celebonovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade)

Local Organizing Committee:

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Milan Dimitrijevic (Chairman, Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Edi Bon (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Zorica Cvetkovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Miodrag Dacic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Dragana Ilic (Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade)
Predrag Jovanovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Nenad Milovanovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Zoran Simic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Natasa Stanic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
Tatjana Milovanov-Milenkovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)

IV SBGAC will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, 21-24 April 2004.
Official languages of the Conference are Serbian, Bulgarian and English. Titles of contributed papers with an up to half page abstract in English, Bulgarian or Serbian, should be send before 25 March 2004, with the Registration Form to E-mail address:

mdimitrijevic@aob.bg.ac.yu or, if difficulties with e-mail connections, to lpopovic@aip.de or by mail to

Milan S. Dimitrijevic
Astronomical Observatory
Volgina 7
11160 Belgrade
Serbia
tel. ? 11 419357 loc. 117
fax. ? 11 2419553

Proceedings of the IV SBGAC will be published until the end of 2004 and the dead line for manuscripts of invited lectures and contributed papers is 1st June 2004. There is no limitations on the number of pages, but contributions will be reviewed by SOC and if too extensive a shorter version will be asked.

In attachment you can find TeX macros file for papers, which may be used for contributions and half page abstracts. If you have problems with macros or additional questions please contact Predrag Jovanovic at: pjovanovic@aob.bg.ac.yu

On Internet address http://www.aob.bg.ac.yu/meetings/4scsls you can also download papers macros.

We recommend for accommodation the Hotel "Royal". The address is Kralja Petra 56 and phones: 381-11-634-222 and 381-11-626-426. Actual prices are around 22 Eur in 1/1 and 18 Eur in 1/2.

INVITED LECTURES CONFIRMED UP TO NOW ARE:

Petra Boehm, Martin Roth: 3D SPECTROMETRY WITH THE POTDSDAM MULTI APERTURE SPECTROPHOTOMETER

Rumen Bogdanovski: STAR GAZER WEB BASED SYSTEM FOR STAR FIELD VISUALIZATION AND ITS INTEGRATION TO THE WFPDB

Zorica Cvetkovic: EUROPEAN LONGITUDE NETWORK AND A PROJECT FOR THE INCLUSION OF BELGRADE

Miodrag Dacic: REDUCTION OF ASTROGEODETIC DETERMINATIONS ON THE UNIQUE SYSTEMS

Milan S. Dimitrijevic: FULLERENES AND ASTRONOMY

Gojko Djurasevic: INVESTIGATIONS OF ACTIVE CLOSE BINARY SYSTEMS ON BELGRADE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

Lachezar Filipov: ACCRETION DISKS: RESULTS OF SEARCH IN SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, BAS

Tsvetan Georgiev, O. I. Stanchev: DECOMPOSITION OF PROFILES OF SPIRAL GALAXIES WITH CONVEX DISK SHAPES

Petar Getsov: SPACE RESEARCH IN BULGARIA

Valeri Golev, Ivanka Yankulova: ANALYSIS OF THE STARBURST-AGN CONNECTION FOR THE IR Sy2 GALAXY NGC7679

Georgi Ivanov: STELLAR COMPLEXES IN M33

Damyan Kalagarski: WEB ACCESS AND IMAGE PROCESSING IN ASTROPHYSICAL DATABASES

Haralambi Markov: POSITIONAL DEPENDENCE OF THE INSTRUMENTAL STELLAR MAGNITUDES: BASED ON THE SEARCH WITH THE ROZHEN 2-m RCC TELESCOPE

Slobodan Ninkovic: GLOBULAR CLUSTERS-INTERESTING STELLAR SYSTEMS

Luka C. Popovic, Konstantin Stavrev, Katya Tsvetkova, Miltcho Tsvetkov, Dragana Ilic, Gotthard Richter, Petra Boem: OBSERVATIONS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH THE 2m TELESCOPE OF ROZHEN OBSERVATORY: AIMS AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Miltcho Tsvetkov, Valery Golev: BULGARIAN VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY

Katya Tsvetkova, Miltcho Tsvetkov, Konstantin Stavrev Ana Borisova: BALKAN COLLABORATION IN THE ARCHIVING OF THE WIDE-FIELD PHOTOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS

Dejan Urosevic: THEORETICAL SIGMA-D RELATION FOR SUPERNOVA REMNANTS

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

April 21, Wednesday
12:00 Opening Ceremony
12:30 Petr Getsov: KOSMICHESKI ISSLEDVANIYA V BALGARIYA
13:15 COCKTAIL
15:00-17:00 4 Invited lectures
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-19:30 4 Invited lectures

April 22, Thursday
9:00-11:00 4 Invited lectures
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 2 Invited lectures
12:30-13:00 Coffee break
13:00-14:30 Poster presentation
(5-10 min for each poster)
After lunch: A walk through Belgrade

April 23, Friday
Full day excursion to Vrshac

April 24, Saturday
9:00-11:00 4 Invited lectures
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 2 Invited lectures
12:30-14:00 Poster presentation
14:00 Closing of the Conference

To registered persons we will send the final announcement with the Conference program before the beginning of the Conference.

We hope to see you at Conference.

LOC

Registration Form

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Name:__________________________

Address:_______________________

E-mail:________________________

Authors and Titles of contributions

(Dead line for half page abstract is 25 March 2004)

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THE BALKAN ASTRONOMY MEETING

The first announcement for this meeting is reproduced as received from the organizers

BALKAN ASTRONOMICAL MEETING

"South-East European Astronomy and Space Research-Present and Future Perspectives"

14-18 June, 2004, Rozhen, Bulgaria

dedicated to the 25-th anniversary of the first light from the 2m telescope at Rozhen Observatory, to the 25-th anniversary of the flight of the Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov

and to the 110th anniversary of the Sofia University Observatory

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The world astronomical science is nowadays experiencing an extraordinary period of great changes and discoveries. The exploration of the Universe both from the ground and from the space has made colossal progress in revealing of the nature of the distant Universe. Clear signs for future development and progress also present: extremely large ground-based telescopes and a fleet of orbiting space explorers "looking" at the Universe in the whole spectrum. At the same time middle and small size telescopes provide long spectral and photometric data sets for studying the variability of many astronomical objects. The spectral observations with middle class telescopes are also very useful for determining of the fundamental parameters of the stars and for understanding the structure of their atmospheres, too.

The collaboration among astronomers in the South-Eastern Europe has long tradition. In particular, there is a clear tendency the bilateral collaborations to grow up in multilateral ones. First steps in this direction were the meeting held at the Belogradchik Observatory, Bulgaria in September 2000 and the foundation of the South-Eastern Branch of the European Astronomical Union. Further progress was made in September 2003: Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and Turkey agreed officially to develop common research programs by using the 2m telescope and other observational facilities in the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory "Rozhen" (BNAO).

In the field of the astronomical education, despite of the very hard "brain-drain" from the region, the interest for all levels astronomical studies continues. Our goals are to improve significantly the collaboration among the Balkan countries in the field of the university astronomical education. Some first steps in this direction were done: the South-East European Summer School for graduate and Ph.D. students from the region "Astronomy with Small Telescopes" was held in July 2003 at Belogradchik Observatory, Bulgaria.

During the last years the Bulgarian Space Research Institute has achieved great success in Remote Sensing Earth investigations, Space biotechnology, Space physics and High-energy astrophysics and other research fields. The Bulgaria 1300 Satellite, Astronomical complex Rozhen and many other scientific implements were built. All these facts are promising that the collaboration of the Bulgarian space research investigators with the colleagues from other Balkan countries has a future.

Motivated by all these positive developments, in order to promote discussions on the further collaboration among the countries in the region, the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in co-operation with the Institute for Space Research, BAS and the Department of Astronomy, Sofia University and together with colleagues from Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, Greece and FYR of Macedonia decided to organize Balkan Astronomical Meeting (BAM).

The meeting will take place in ? remarkable for the Bulgarian astronomical community year: the 25th anniversary of the first space flight of the Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov, 25 years from the "first light" registered by the 2-m RCC telescope at BNAO "Rozhen" and 110th anniversary of the first Bulgarian observatory - the Observatory of the Sofia University. For this reason it is dedicated to these tree events. The BAM is also one of the initiatives of the South-Eastern Branch of the European Astronomical Society.

The meeting will be held at the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory - Rozhen in the period 14-18 June, 2004. The main topics of the conference follow the idea to embrace as better as possible all field of the astronomical science where the researchers have already had good positions, namely: spectroscopy and photometry of single and binary stars and of stars in stellar aggregates, solar physics and small bodies in the Solar system, extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology, space astronomy and research, and astronomical instrumentation - ground-based and for space research. Additional topics could be included after expression of interest.

The participants will be accommodated in the Guest House of the Observatory and the nearest hotel "Rozhen", 6 km away the Observatory. Transport to the Observatory and back will be provided. The prices in the hotel are of the order 20-30 Euro for a double room. Due to the small capacity of the Observatory and the hotel the number of the participants is limited to about 60. Participants with small incomes can apply for free of charge accommodation at the Observatory. The Organizing Committee will consider the applications. The participants will not be charged with registration fee. The Bulgarian institutions- organizers will cover the registration fee costs.

The organizers of the Conference welcome the colleagues from South-East Europe and outside to support this initiative and participate the meeting .

If you would like to attend the Balkan Astronomical Meeting, please fill in the registration form enclosed and send it to bm2004@astro.bas.bg no later than March 31. Online registration will be possible after February 15 in the web page www.astro.bas.bg/bam2004.html.

Looking forward to meet you at Rozhen!

SOC: Gordana Apostolovska, FYR of Macedonia

Jiannis Seiradakis, Greece

Kiril Panov, Bulgaria - chair

Lachezar Filipov, Bulgaria - co-chair

Luka Popovic, Serbia and Montenegro

Magda Stavinschi, Romania

Osman Demircan, Turkey

Panos Niarchos, Greece

Valeri Golev, Bulgaria

Vasile Mioc, Romania

Zoran Knezevic, Serbia and Montenegro

LOC: Alexandar Antov

Anastas Stinkov

Dimitar Kolev - chair

Ina Barzova

Lubomir Iliev

Momchil Dechev

Maria Dimitrova

Nevyana Markova

Petar Pessev

Renada Konstantinova-Antova - secretary

Contact persons: Renada Konstantinova-Antova and Lubomir Iliev

Institute of Astronomy, BAS

72 Tsarigradsko shosse blvd.

BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria

tel. +359 2 758927, +359 2 7144 269

fax: +359 2 758927

e-mail: bm2004@astro.bas.bg

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BALKAN ASTRONOMICAL MEETING

14-18 June 2004, Rozhen, Bulgaria

Family name: First name: Middle name:

Title: Gender:

Affiliation:

Address:

E-mail: Tel.: FAX:

Title(s) of your contribution(s):

Type of the contribution(s): Review, Short oral report, Poster (please, leave the true one(s)!)

Abstract: (no more than half page, please!)

Preferred accommodation: *Guest House at the Observatory

Hotel "Rozhen"

*NOTE: There is limited possibility for accommodation at the Observatory!

Preference will be given to participants with small incomes. The Organizing

Committee will consider all the applications and you'll be informed about.

Accompanying person: yes, no (please, specify the true one!)

Probable way and city of arrival in Bulgaria:

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MEETINGS ON PLASMA PHYSICS

Two meetings in the field of plasma physics are planned for 2004:

12th International Conference on Plasma Physics

This meeting will be held in October in Nice (France).Details about this event are available at the web address given below:

http://www-fusion-magnetique.cea.fr/icpp2004/

SPIG

The next meeting in the SPIG series will be organized in the Tara national park in Serbia and Montenegro next August. The main organizer of this meeting is the Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Vinca near Beograd.Details are available at the following web site:

http://www.vin.bg.ac.yu/spig2004/index.htm

Dr Milcho Tsvetkov
Sofia Sky Archive Data Center
72 Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd.
Sofia 1784
Bulgaria
milcho@skyarchive.org

fax:+359 2 9744 835

Dr Vladan Celebonovic
Institute of Physics
Pregrevica 118
11080 Zemun-Beograd
Yugoslavia
vladan@phy.bg.ac.yu
vcelebonovic@sezampro.yu
fax:+381 11 3162190

(novembar 2003.)

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